A Religious Pacifist Looks at Abortion

From the standpoint of the religious pacifist, Professor Zahn sees elementary human rights beginning at the moment of conception marking the beginning of the individual\u27s life process, and argues against abortion from this point

Surrender to Win: Constructions of 12-Step Recovery from Alcoholism and Drug Addiction.

This article focuses on the ways in which members of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and Narcotics Anonymous (NA) construct themselves as being in recovery from addiction. In this original study, data were taken from nineteen participants. They were analysed using Willig’s (2013) six-stage Foucauldian discourse analytic method. This method is suited to enabling the analyst to locate discourse resources used by participants within broader, dominant, discourses, and for exploration of the implications of these constructions for subjectivity and practice. This article presents a discussion of analytic findings. Mainstream academia has often constructed 12-Step recovery as a largely totalising discourse. This is likely to have negatively prejudiced health professionals and may help explain relatively low referral rates into 12-Step resources for addicted clients. However, our analysis suggested that participants constructed themselves not as subjected by AA and NA discourse, but as drawing on it in ways aligned with agency, in order to practice care of the self in pursuit of various ethical goals. This implies 12-Step recovery to be less antithetical to, and indeed more aligned with, humanistic practitioner values than is perhaps often assumed to be the case. This finding suggests that practitioners may need to consider reappraising their view of 12-Step recovery. The discussion will therefore focus on the agency-structure dialectic that seemed to be at the heart of participant constructions of addiction and recovery. It is also is a finding which points to an urgent need for more qualitative studies in the currently under-researched, and hence perhaps poorly understood, area of 12-Step recovery from addiction

Calculation of low frequency vibrational resonances of submerged structures

Numerical techniques for calculating the low frequency vibrational resonances of submerged structures are reviewed. Both finite element and boundary element approaches for calculating fully-coupled added mass matrices for use in NASTRAN analysis are described and illustrated. The finite element approach is implemented using existing capability in NASTRAN. The boundary element approach uses the NASHUA structural-acoustics program to compute the added mass matrix. The two procedures are compared to each other for the case of a submerged cylindrical shell with flat end closures. It is concluded that both procedures are capable of computing accurate submerged resonances and that the more elegant boundary element procedure is easier to use but may be more expensive computationally

A renormalisation group method. II. Approximation by local polynomials

This paper is the second in a series devoted to the development of a rigorous renormalisation group method for lattice field theories involving boson fields, fermion fields, or both. The method is set within a normed algebra $\mathcal{N}$ of functionals of the fields. In this paper, we develop a general method---localisation---to approximate an element of $\mathcal{N}$ by a local polynomial in the fields. From the point of view of the renormalisation group, the construction of the local polynomial corresponding to $F$ in $\mathcal{N}$ amounts to the extraction of the relevant and marginal parts of $F$. We prove estimates relating $F$ and its corresponding local polynomial, in terms of the $T_{\phi}$ semi-norm introduced in part I of the series.Comment: 30 page

Task A, Analysis of C-W Data, Final Report

The object of this investigation is to obtain additional information concerning the effects of aurora on high frequency radio signals which is essential to a complete understanding of new modes of propagation that have tactical and strategic applications.Signal Corps Contract No. DA-36-039-SC-71137 Department of the Army Project No. 3-99-03-022 Signal Corps Project No. 182BLIST OF FIGURES -- [SECTION I] PURPOSE -- [SECTION II] ABSTRACT -- [SECTION III] PUBLICATIONS. LECTURES, REPORTS AND CONFERENCES -- [SECTION IV] FACTUAL DATA : 1. Signal Outage Time on Short Paths and Blackouts Compared for Years of High and Low Solar Activity. ; 2. Study of Possible Relations between Transmission over Long Paths and Ionospheric,Magnetic and Solar Phenomena. ; 3. Study of Fluctuation Indices. ; 4. Effects of Ionospheric Absorption and Irregularities on 4 Mc/s Short Path Transmission. ; 5. F2 Region Parameters at College for the Period June 1941 Through December 1956. ; 6. Tables of Monthly Medians Signal Strength June 1949-December 1950 and January 1954-October 1955. -- [SECTION V] OVERALL CONCLUSIONS -- [SECTION VI] RECOMMENDATIONS -- [SECTION VII] PERSONNELYe

Some factors affecting the distribution and apparent abundance of yellowfin and skipjack tuna in the Eastern Pacific Ocean

ENGLISH: Since 1951, the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission has been investigating the biology, ecology and population dynamics of the yellowfin tuna, Thunnus albacares, and the skipjack tuna, Katsuwonus pelamis, in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. Of particular importance has been the study of the effects of fishing and of fishery-independent factors on the abundance and distribution of these tunas. For yellowfin tuna there is, on the average, an inverse relationship between total fishing effort and apparent abundance (Schaefer, 1957a). For skipjack there is no evidence to suggest that fishing effort has ever been sufficiently intense to affect measurably the abundance (Schaefer, 1961). Rather, it appears that the year-to-year fluctuations in apparent abundance are independent of the activities of the fishing fleets. SPANISH: Desde 1951 la Comisión Interamericana del Atún Tropical se ha dedicado a la investigación de la biología, ecología y la dinámica de las poblaciones del atún aleta amarilla, Thunnus albacares, y del barrilete, Katsuwonus pelamis, en el Océano Pacífico del Este. De importancia especial ha sido el estudio de los efectos de la pesca y de los factores independientes de las pesquerías sobre la abundancia y la distribución de esos atunes. En cuanto al atún aleta amarilla, existe, en promedio, una relación inversa entre el esfuerzo total de pesca y la abundancia aparente (Schaefer, 1957a) . Con respecto al barrilete, no hay evidencia que haga pensar que el esfuerzo de pesca haya sido nunca lo suficientemente intenso como para afectar sensiblemente la abundancia (Schaefer, 1961). Más bien parece que las fluctuaciones de un año a otro en su abundancia aparente, son independientes de las actividades de las flotas pesqueras

Comparison of 30 day integrations with and without interactive clouds

A cloud radiation interaction parameterization package has recently been incorporated into a global spectral General Circulation Model (GCM) used for extended range prediction studies at GFDL. The elements of this package are summarized. Analysis of the time mean radiative and dynamical responses suggests that cloud radiation interaction has a favorable impact, overall, on systematic errors. The possible relevance of this sensitivity study to FIRE is mentioned